Idaho corrections manager chosen to lead Montana State Prison

Lynn Guyer, a 30-year veteran from the Idaho corrections system, has been selected as the new warden of Montana State Prison.

 Guyer retired in May 2016 after 13 years as warden of the North Idaho Correctional Institution near Cottonwood in northern Idaho. 

 During that time, he was tapped for a number of temporary assignments, including working at other male facilities and at the Pocatello Women’s Correctional Institution, where he was tasked to address several areas, including a cultural assessment of the facility’s staff and inmates.

 “We were impressed with Warden Guyer’s background. He has worked in a number of capacities and with issues parallel to many of those facing corrections in Montana,” said Montana Department of Corrections Director Reginald D. Michael. 

 “His background includes a broad knowledge of justice reinvestment initiatives similar to many of those enacted during our 2017 legislative session. We are fortunate to have someone with such a diversity of experience joining our DOC team.”

 Guyer’s correctional experience also includes a seven-year stint as a probation and parole manager and community work center manager. 

 In this capacity, he supervised probation and parole officers and pre-sentence investigators, and had oversight of programming for the approximately 1,700 offenders sentenced to probation or parole in southeastern Idaho. 

 He also has served as a senior probation and parole officer, an employment development coordinator and a correctional officer.

 “I am looking forward to working with all the individuals at the Montana Department of Corrections. Montana State Prison has a great history and I hope to add to that,” Guyer said. “Most importantly, we want to make sure that the individuals released from the system have been fully prepared to be successful in our communities.”

 Guyer graduated from Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston with a bachelor of science in criminal justice. He will assume the MSP warden’s position an Oct. 22.

 Guyer is a 1982 graduate of Weiser High School and the son of the late Wayne and Cecille Guyer.